Discussion leaders at the Northwest Forest Pest Action Council meeting on October 29, 1956. Portland, Oregon.

Photo by: R.B. Pope Date: October 29, 1956

Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. Collection: Portland Station Collection; La Grande, Oregon. Image: PS-1485

More about the NWFPAC from a 1992 oral interview conducted by Harold K. Steen (HKS) with William D. Hagenstein (WDH) (from pages 75-77): HKS: Characterize the Northwest Forest Pest Action Council. WDH: The Northwest Forest Pest Action Council was organized by Hoss Andrews who was the regional forester in Portland in 1948, and he invited a handful of us. He invited the two state foresters. He invited Kolbe of the Western Pine Association, myself, and a representative for three or four of the major land owning companies like Weyerhaeuser and Crown-Zellerbach, which were the two biggest ones in our region, to get together to decide how we could handle the problem that was being posed in eastern Oregon principally then by the spruce budworm. There was a very significant infestation of spruce budworm, ... We got together in the library in Portland. It wasn't called the Northwest Forest Pest Action Council, we called it the Spruce Budworm Action Committee; that was its original name. We immediately got to work deciding how we were going to find out the extent of the infestation and the experiment station and the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine's Division of Forest Insect Investigations. It was not part of the Forest Service yet. The Forest Insect Division furnished airplanes and spotters. Several of the companies and the states of Oregon and Washington did the same thing. We went out and completely mapped the infestation area. Then we decided what we were going to do about it. DDT was available. We started a big spraying program. ... Here was one of the most cooperative things that ever occurred. There was no animosity by anybody on the regulation issue or any of these controversial things. Here our job was, we wanted to save the resource, and we got together like I never saw any group ever do in the history of the country. The Northwest Forest Pest Action Council history is a subject that would be a damn good book for somebody. Full interview is available here: <a href="http://www.foresthistory.org/Research/Hagenstein_Forestrys_Advocate.pdf" rel="nofollow">www.foresthistory.org/Research/Hagenstein_Forestrys_Advoc...</a>

To learn more about this photo collection see: Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.

For geospatial data collected during annual aerial forest insect and disease detection surveys see: <a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/forest-grasslandhealth/insects-diseases/?cid=stelprdb5286951" rel="nofollow">www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/forest-grasslandhealth/insects-...</a>

For related historic program documentation see: <a href="https://archive.org/details/AerialForestInsectAndDiseaseDetectionSurveysInORandWA19472016TheSurveyHighRes" rel="nofollow">archive.org/details/AerialForestInsectAndDiseaseDetection...</a> Johnson, J. 2016. Aerial forest insect and disease detection surveys in Oregon and Washington 1947-2016: The survey. Gen. Tech. Rep. R6-FHP-GTR-0302. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. 280 p.

For additional historic forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: <a href="http://wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources" rel="nofollow">wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources</a>